Ezra Pound is arguably one of the finest of American born poets and classical scholars.

Pound influenced many of his peers such as W.P. Yeats, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot.

Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho Territory in 1885.

He was a descendant of William Wadsworth on his mother's side. He was educated in a series of so-called dame schools, some run by Quakers. From 1898 until 1900 he attended the Cheltenham Military Academy, where the boys wore Civil War-style uniforms and were taught how to shoot, and the importance of submitting to authority. Pound was clever, independent and unpopular. He was admitted to the University of Pennsylvannia at the age of 15.